<p>In this episode, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown and Dr Katerina Johnson explore the central role which has long been attributed to digestion in the promotion of physical and mental wellbeing, from the nineteenth century to the present day. How did Victorians perceive the connection between the brain and the stomach? What does science tell us now? Why is digestive health so central to our understanding of who we are?</p>

In this episode, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown and Dr Katerina Johnson explore the central role which has long been attributed to digestion in the promotion of physical and mental wellbeing, from the nineteenth century to the present day. How did Victorians perceive the connection between the brain and the stomach? What does science tell us now? Why is digestive health so central to our understanding of who we are?

Diseases in Dialogue: The Gut-Brain Connection

This is the podcast for the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth Century Perspectives, at the University of Oxford. 

The project explores the medical, literary and cultural responses in the Victorian age to the perceived problems of stress and overwork, anticipating many of the preoccupations of our own era.

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This is the podcast for the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth Century Perspectives, at the University of Oxford. The project explores the medical, literary and cultural responses in the Victorian age to the perceived problems of stress and overwork, anticipating many of the preoccupations of our own era.

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